Variety's music writers pick 2025's best songs, from Lily Allen, Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Dean, Dijon, Hayley Williams, Taylor Swift and more.

Songs about love, sex, tax and demon hunters ranked among the best music of 2025, according to a "poll of polls" conducted by ...

From Clipse to Metro Boomin and Cardi B, the year was full of memorable rap songs that expanded and experimented with the ...

Listen to 68 tracks that made major statements, boosted big beefs, propelled up-and-comers and soundtracked the party this year. By Jon Pareles Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Pareles Here’s a ...

Here are Pitchfork’s 40 best rap songs of 2025. Check out all of Pitchfork’s 2025 wrap-up coverage here. When Wham ( Lil Baby ...

The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...